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    Implementing LIS/GIS from a customary land tenure perspective: the Fiji experience
    Rakai, Mele E. T. ; Williamson, Ian P. ( 1995)
    This paper briefly reviews Fiji's national land information system (LIS) strategy and the major land and geographic information systems (LIS/GIS) initiatives that have been under way in the major government organisations in Fiji up to April 1994. It also describes and attempts to examine the impact that these initiatives have had on the people who continue to live under Fiji's customary land tenure systems.
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    Implications of incorporating Customary Land Tenure Data into a Land Information System
    Rakai, Mele E. T. ; Williamson, Ian P. ( 1995)
    Land Information Systems (LIS) have been primarily developed to serve the needs of countries that use a 'western' style land market where individual land rights are the norm. However many countries that have a large proportion of lands held under customary land tenures where communally held land rights are common, are also wishing to establish LIS. For these countries LIS is a tool to facilitate the management and administration of their land resources, preserve their customs and traditions and promote the development of a market economy. In order to be effective, the LIS introduced into these countries will need to incorporate customary land tenure data. This paper considers the implications of incorporating such customary land tenure data into a LIS.Firstly the attributes of western land tenures that are currently used in Land Information Systems are reviewed; then drawing examples from Fiji, the paper examines some of the attributes of customary tenure that could be entered into a LIS. This is followed by a discussion of some of the major issues associated with including customary tenure data into a LIS.
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    Traditional land tenure issues for LIS in Fiji
    Rakai, Mele E. T. ; Ezigbalike, I. C. ; Williamson, I. P. ( 1995)
    With the help of the New Zealand Government, a national LIS is currently being implemented in Fiji, under the auspices of the Department of Lands. Like many other Pacific Island countries, Fiji has a complex land tenure system. This is the first of two papers that aims at examining the implications of LIS for traditional land tenures. Since LIS is a product of the industrialised world, attributes of the conventional `western' land tenures can easily be incorporated into any LIS. However, attributes of traditional land tenures are yet to be identified and incorporated into an LIS. Unless traditional land tenure issues are considered and taken into account when implementing an LIS, the LIS will not be fully accepted and utilised by the traditional peoples, and will therefore not be truly successful. The emphasis in these papers therefore will be on the traditional aspects of land tenure. This paper reviews Fiji's dual land tenure systems, with particular emphasis on it's traditional land tenure system, and raises some issues and problems of it for an LIS.